Five patients perished in a major fire at a Saint Petersburg hospital on Tuesday morning with 150 people evacuated to safety. The facility has been designated to treat patients with #COVID19.
Emergency services were alerted to the blaze at the Saint George Hospital in #Russia’s second city at around 6:30am local time. Plumes of smokes were observed coming from the building’s sixth floor.

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